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Ghost of a Fallen Empire

by Youth Forgotten

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1.
Anthem 01:41
How can you stand there and sing along? When you have no knowledge of why you belong Cause this style of music has to turned to shit! Consume these bright lights and chuggy riffs The scene of today it makes me sick The kids of the jones's are doing spin kicks This music lacks all personality This Hardcore Life A doomed prosperity WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THE SCENE TODAY? The Children are never raised on the yesterday... Tortured souls that paved the way We are the forgotten youth of the last century As if they were sheep we heard them along Forget the album just sell em a song The scene of today at the mercy of the cliques "Dude this bands breakdowns are pretty sick" The scene of today come and get your fix The kids of the jones's are doing spin kicks This music lacks all personality This Hardcore Life A doomed prosperity WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THE SCENE TODAY? The Children are never raised on the yesterday... Tortured souls that paved the way We are the forgotten youth of the last century These shows are just like church to me but you see there is so much disease I wish that the youth coming up would wake up and see They need to save this dying scene
2.
Break free from these chains of this false hope conflicted lie A mans endless search for triumph through its peers eyes What can we all do? To escape this immoral demise Knowledge we all seek For judgement of faith in only one mans eyes... Is this a plague or revolution? A million blood soaked tears have been shed for nothing Are these "angels" even fucking there? Save me from this broken path this fable bares no weight "Greatest story ever told" Its forever felt so fake Your god leads you to holy water He dangles you from a stick For the oasis isnt real In fact, its blind faith Is this a plague or revolution? A million blood soaked tears have been shed for nothing Are these "angels" even fucking there? Feel the beat of your life in his hands He only knows what happens next....
3.
Take Control 02:11
I died so many times inside its not ok Calculate my loss What went wrong? Gamble anything to feel alive again All hopes been lost There's No Control!!! No Control!!!! It feels as if a disease has spread into my soul Grasping for anything I have to gain control The story we can tell in the ruins of our hell This is the mess that I've become and I'm done I will not feel this hate anymore Bless the day in front of you Rise on up lets take control Blessed beauty save me from the mess that I've become It was the world around me and with out you I am done I am done! But... In my dreams In the clouds I see you Your there!!! The story we can tell in the ruins of our hell This is the mess that I've become and I'm done I will not feel this hate anymore Bless the day in front of you Rise on up lets take control
4.
The Passion 04:43
As I peal another layer of skin I find I don't like whats within A parasitic stressful tone Total mess all my own This downward spiral of despair Is long road going anywhere? Distract me from the prize Destroy everything left inside Too many times I've sold my soul Nothing left, I feel so cold Eat my heart to the core It beats no longer anymore I wear these scars like a crown of thorns This martyr I've become Searching through these bloody roots to find what it meant to my youth Adolescent ignorance guided by my "precious" pride Now this mess is six feet deep I am drowning in idols deceit Betrayed by the ones that we all love Suffocated by their scum Too many times I've sold my soul Nothing left, I feel so cold Eat my heart to the core It beats no longer anymore I wear these scars like a crown of thorns This martyr I've become This ignorant deception of deceit guide me no longer You can tare apart who I am But you cannot destroy my passion You cannot take my pride You cannot destroy my passion And you cannot take my pride! This deadly sin has guide me through my hell My waking dream This nightmare from above
5.
Moral Soul 05:58
In the shallow part of my mind I wonder if I am even alive or just a replicant of a past life A ghost lost, lost in time Sickened by the man I despise How do I even hold onto what once was? I stare into the light and the whole world lost its sound Open the mouth of heaven a rapture of temptation As if its a dream with every lie I witness life crumbling Just as I come into who I am The devil of temptation rides again Just before my fall the falure Blinded by deceit Cut on the alter Desperate and broken I am fighting to hold on To not loose track of who I am Open the mouth of heaven a rapture of temptation That eats away... The moral soul... Eats away... What keeps us whole How can it be that I sacrifice who I am Just to be the idols deception Burn out destroy a reputation How can anybody get behind something so transparent and blind I see through the curtain behind your stage Who you are... What you became.... Open the mouth of heaven a rapture of temptation That eats away... The moral soul... Eats away... What keeps us whole The fingertips of guilt squeezing the pit in your heart Break free from your jaded past Try to live to fight another day They will not last Time will expose them of their shame Never give in Never sell yourself out!!!
6.
A thousand years of regret I've lived Being punished for a past I'd rather forget And I'm fighting to hold on An idea fading out of sight Brothers forged in the flames of damnation We are sands of time and it shows And we have lived through these plagued years For far far too long We are brothers forged in the flames of damnation As we loose formation A blinding glow from the heavens above We need to find some solace We need to go back to where we came from Brothers forged in the flames of damnation We are sands of time and it shows And we have lived through these plagued years For far far too long And it shows.... I'm too tired to look behind The meaning its shallow Its hard to find Its passive aggressive instead of art And now no one speaks from the heart Unite The City Unite The City Unite The City Unite The City And still we share these times lost like kids And still we feel like home No matter the scars we share Or the friends we care to bare we are one Now lets Unite Unite This City!!!
7.
Time will tell us if we are human Proposed example is not true at its core Whats lost has been stolen Im left here with nothing and I cannot take it anymore On my shoulders this burden you left me Out in the cold no sign of life Drain the life from me Take a step back and see This world is not for me Proposed Existence Proposed Existence Its happened before it will happen again Just before my hands held high The protagonist spits into my eyes Mocks my pride and tears down the resistance The path burned down... History will never show us our failures Value of friendship the stories been told Scars of tomorrow These wounds never heal Id rather die than sell my soul Id rather die Die than betray my friends Drain the life from me Take a step back and see This world is not for me Proposed Existence Proposed Existence Its happened before it will happen again Just before my hands held high The protagonist spits into my eyes Mocks my pride and tears down the resistance The path burned down... Loyal to those loyal to you Look around where the fuck are you? A lifetime away from the man you used to pretend to be to me I see right through the truth you spin No longer blinded by your lies Face the truth deep within Let go of this firestorm...
8.
Nobody Cares 02:26
As I walk this lonely road alone Try to prove my patience And it seems like such a waste of time to continue on this path Cause... Nobody Cares Nobody Cares No matter how hard I try still nobody cares Nobody Cares Nobody Cares No matter how hard I try still nobody cares Kicking me on the fucking floor Can I take this anymore? My blind endurance guiding me In this endless struggle I still paint the face of disgrace Absent of any color Just to fuel the fire that still burns inside A storm like no other Spent my life in solitude This crowded room so lonely Sanctuary for the lost This sacrifice so holy Cause... Nobody Cares Nobody Cares No matter how hard I try still nobody cares Nobody Cares Nobody Cares No matter how hard I try still nobody cares I still paint the face of disgrace Absent of any color Just to fuel the fire that still burns inside A storm like no other This unhealthy transition From a dying world This sorrow ends today Your future starts right now!!! I take pride that I will not end up like you A fallen persona of a forgotten past I can only hope to give this world something to believe in But Nobody Cares....
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10.
End Times 08:05

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released January 30, 2014

Matt Brewer - Lead Guitar
Jim Lamarca - Bass
JC koszewski - Vocals
Rob Walters - Drums
Aaron Salo - Guitar

Recorded @RobArnoldWorld
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Rob Arnold

Artwork/Logo by Gregory Martinis
Concept by Rob Walters & JC Koszewski

Gang Vocals by Steve Rauckhorst, Jeb Holder, Aaron Salo, Ryan Forman, Ed Battes, Derek Miller, Jim LaMarca, Matt Brewer, Tommy "Tkilla" Hogarth

All Press contact Dave@earsplitcompound.com

All Photography by Ed Bates @ setTab Photography

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Youth Forgotten Cleveland, Ohio

While overall retaining dark hardcore/metal outfit tactics to spread their message, an influx of thrash metal dynamics and streetpunk energy coalesce in fueling YOUTH FORGOTTEN. Genre boundaries and inner-scene platforms are eradicated as this quintet dispatches song after song of energized, enraged fury, while lyrically the outfit speaks from an equally grounded, forward-thinking mentality. ... more

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